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imanamerican63

(16,414 posts)
Sat Aug 23, 2025, 12:54 PM Aug 2025

A detention center is coming to Nebraska!

The HSI and Governor Pillen is reopening a correctional facility in McCook Ne to house illegal immigrates. They announced it during the week.

Local news outlets reported the story.

Many residents near the facility and other residents in nearby communities are concerned about the situation and have voiced their outrage against the decision!

Former Governor Ricketts now US Senator stated that it will be a great opportunity to reform the detainees and good chance to be better citizens.

Well, that’s not why they are being held in detention centers and yet the GOBers continue to spew lies about their crimes!





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A detention center is coming to Nebraska! (Original Post) imanamerican63 Aug 2025 OP
I ran out of road near McCook NE one time... kentuck Aug 2025 #1
That happened to me near Castellina-in-Chianti. pdxflyboy Aug 2025 #3
I was trying to find a shortcut to I-70.. kentuck Aug 2025 #7
Trump's uneducated base needs jobs. dem4decades Aug 2025 #2
Inquiring minds want to know... EarthAbides Aug 2025 #4
So now it's REFORM ?! FalloutShelter Aug 2025 #5
Because Work Will Set Them Free! AZJonnie Aug 2025 #6
They were the first to yell about the damage Blue Full Moon Aug 2025 #8
You can take the word "reform" to mean turn them into docile slaves. ananda Aug 2025 #9
Time to get that secret tunnel built. nt Ilsa Aug 2025 #10

kentuck

(115,637 posts)
1. I ran out of road near McCook NE one time...
Sat Aug 23, 2025, 12:57 PM
Aug 2025

I was on a paved road, turned into a dirt road, then turned into a corn field. Before the days of GPS

pdxflyboy

(947 posts)
3. That happened to me near Castellina-in-Chianti.
Sat Aug 23, 2025, 01:08 PM
Aug 2025

I was using Waze, and instead of a cornfield, it was a grape vinyard! I felt really dumb trying to explain to the farmer in very broken Italian , just why I was driving through the middle of his vinyard. He finally “got it”, chuckled, shook his head and pointed to the way out.

EarthAbides

(465 posts)
4. Inquiring minds want to know...
Sat Aug 23, 2025, 01:18 PM
Aug 2025

I though interment camps were places where kidnapped law abiding citizens are placed before they are sent to another country? Just exactly why would you retrain and reform kidnapped law abiding people to be better citizens if you are going to traffic them to another country? Exactly how to do retrain and reform kidnapped law abiding citizens to be better citizens? I think the former Governor knows something that we don't know....

AZJonnie

(4,035 posts)
6. Because Work Will Set Them Free!
Sat Aug 23, 2025, 01:42 PM
Aug 2025

Work at the local farms and ranches, in their orange suits, in exchange for 10 bucks at the commissary a day. These locals complaining will probably change their tune once they realize why the prisoners are really there and how cheap their labor is.

Hopefully just a slip of the tongue if the governor actually said 'better citizens' when he was actually talking about a group who, by definition, are supposed to be NON-citizens.

Blue Full Moon

(3,651 posts)
8. They were the first to yell about the damage
Sat Aug 23, 2025, 02:08 PM
Aug 2025

That trump has done to their economy. So this one detention center will make up for all the damage.

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